Bruce H. Kobayashi
Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Bruce H. Kobayashi is the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law & Economics at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research and teaching focus on litigation and dispute-resolution theory, quantitative forensics, and the legal and economic theory of intellectual property. He co-authored the book “Economics of Federalism.”
Kobayashi has spent his academic career at George Mason University, where he has served as professor of law and in several leadership roles, including associate dean for academic affairs and associate dean for research and faculty development. He also founded the Global Antitrust Institute and serves as a senior scholar with that institute.
He previously served as director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics. Earlier, he was a senior economist with the Federal Trade Commission, a senior research associate with the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and an economist with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
He earned a Ph.D. in economics, a master’s in economics, and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Los Angeles.
